Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house in Chelsea's art colony, she recalls the guns saluting the coronation of Queen Victoria when she was a child of six, the assistance offered her by Wilkie Collins on the occasion of her elopement at the age of 16 with E. M. Ward, R.A., also an artist, her stay at Windsor Castle in 1857 when she was commissioned to paint the portrait of the infant Princess Beatrice. The great painters of the mid-Victorian days she knew as young men-Millais, Leighton, Alma-Tadema, and among her intimate acquaintances in the field of literature were those household...
...first exhibition held by rising artists of the very-much-younger generation closed successfully with $25 assets. The sons and daughters of the New York artist colony at Wood-stock-in-Catskills decided to rent a gallery, hand in their own original work and charge admission, the sum cleared to go toward a new school building. "I don't s'pose we'd have done it if we'd known what a job it was going to be," said the 10-year-old President. There were some hundreds of examples, largely pen and pencil, of surrounding...
...should an artist wait until her career is ended to write her reminiscences?" cries Maria Jeritza* on the first page of her memoirs.† She has answered the question by publishing them in midcareer. Her book is chock-full of merry notes, and will be greedily devoured by lovers of personal chit-chat about beautiful and important people. There is the story of the strong-man Graff 1, who played Ursus in the opera Quo Vadis, and had to hold the prima donna in his arms for ten minutes at a time. "But oh," wails Jeritza, "how many times...
...what we call modern art have proved shockingly impermanent. Sargent's Madame X and Renoir's Madame Charpentier, to mention only two of the paintings in the Metropolitan (Manhattan), are badly cracked and peeling. Professor Forbes has suggested that "perhaps a time will come when all artists may be able to obtain certified paints the quality of which has been passed on by a commission; ... if the canvases, pigments and varnishes bought by artists are not good, their pictures will not last. It is too much to expect every artist to be a chemist who can test...
...year-old A. Clemens Finley, Jr., of West Virginia, was awarded, against 14 competitors, this year's Prix 'de Rome-a three-year fellowship with a residence and a studio in the American Academy in Rome and a yearly allowance of $1,000. Artist Finley's personal history includes a great variety of jobs, as "adjusting electric metres, running a coffee house, working in the Art Department of The Washington Post, finding lost baggage for tourists in Paris." Of the 15 applicants the jury retained 3 for further consideration-A. Clemens Finley, Jr., T. C. Richards, both...